Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-14
DIR. M'GLYNN,
a Review OF the accommodated Priests
Relation to tho Church.
FORT WORTH, TEX, July Is, 1S5

Relation to tho Church.
FORT WORTH, TEX, July IS, 1SST.
To the Editor or the Gazette.
In your to-dsy's issue you have an ed
itorisl about DR.. McGlynn, the Roman
Catholic priest recently accommodated ,
and, as non-CathOlic, you deal very uus
biasedly and apparently from very tol.
Grant standpoint with the question Itself,
and. recognizing the right the hierarchy
bad in eXpeiing him from the church,
very leniently with DR.. McGlynn, citing
each and every point which might posi-
oily speak IN his favor The article is be
fore the eFes of your readers, and they
can and will Judge for themselves, and
may give him all the benefits of the doubt
(of his motives. But if you sug-
gest near every reason which might
have induced noble e1d pure
minded nan to fight and disObey bis &c
ClesiGstiCal superlors, you Omitsto state
another one, which might have led
lower minded northumberland possibly
and even very likely him-to such q bold
ard, from a Catholic view, sacrilegious
step, and that is, the hunger for nOtori-
ETY.. Let me explain: The question Of
eventually communicating each and
every member OF the Knights Of Labor
as q secret society has been brought By
Cardinal Tascheresu before the Sacred
College at Rome, and on the interference
OF Cardinal Gibbons action upon il hiss
been suspended snd the matter given into
the hands Of the propaganda to examine
it more closely, However this question
Will hnslly be settled the writer snd sll
good Catholics will submit TO the decision
of the Pope unreservedly-Qnd so DR..
MCGlynn ought TO have done
but the church apparently holds
that priest mas not to
interfere in such matters nor to tske sides
with these questions. The Roman Cath
OliC church has undoubtedly the right to
choose its pillars for itself and does so by
appointing bishops, and more especially
prmates ana cardinals. The church did
not see in DR.. EICGIynn, ever 50 able as
he may be, the stuff and the right mate
rial1o be such a pillar or counsellor and
consequently left him to his parish duties
at St. Stephens, New York city. But this
position is, for the ambitions of DR..
MCGlynI, not elevated and eminent
enough, and, as an ungratefCl sOn-very
properly styled by you the creature Of the
churCh-he revOlts At the first plausible
preteXt egeinst his STperiOrs and the
highest hiersrchical authority, the Pope
himself, simply for the sake TO become
notorious and famous and even to the sac
rihCe Of the eternal hereafter, making,
after eli, only 9 cats paw for Henry George.
only men of an average greater mental
faculties are liable to become lUnGtlCS or
maniaCs IDeCaUSe we can Olly lose what
we have got, and for mis- sake would like
90 hope this to be the case with DR..
MCGlynO, hut I fear that he deliberately
plays o very doubtful and very limited
mOmentaTy renOWn against mis- eternal
life snd can consequently only condemn
him; furthermore l can have no sympathy
with priest Wh0 mixes worldly and pO-
litiCal affairs with his teachings and holds
that he only urge his flock TO practice and
submit TO the laws OF the church, giving
them entire liberty to drink wine, beer
and liquor or to abstain from it, end to
think and act e5Out any political O-sCCial
question Just as they please so long IS
they do not interfere with the govern
ment, the laws and the 6Ctual social rules
OF The country and that he keep alOCt
from au and any private affairs,
and l am indeed glad to state that only 8
few Catholic priests have acted other
wise. Now, so far So you can compare
DR.. McGlynn with Professor Dollm-
ger and Monsieur Loiseau (Father
Hyacinth), allow me to remark that these
gentlemen, divorced from the church,
prompted by quite other and purer mo
tlyes-the first on account OF the then
newly promulgated dogma of the infGlli-
bility of the Pope when speaking ext
csthedTs; the second on aCCountlof the
then attempted GalIiCism-and deserve
better esteem than to be compared with Or.
MCGlynu, whom in future all Catholics
will utterly ignore and whose reception
by the Protestant world is as yet in the
future.
Hoping that you viii give this com
as expressing the views of &
Catholic in this matter, space IN your
valuable paper, 1 I'm, dear sir, your ODE
dent servant, +. GEORGE BETZ.